# Groom Investment

> Groom Investment is a VC fund backing Apps, Music and EdTech. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Groom Investment is an investment firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $6.1M–$17M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 2 | 15% |
| Music | 2 | 15% |
| EdTech | 1 | 8% |
| FinTech | 1 | 8% |
| Software | 1 | 8% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 15% |
| Series E | 1 | 8% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| South Korea | 3 | 23% |
| India | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Diquest | diquest is a Korean enterprise search engine. | $10.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 13, 2026 |  |
| True Balance | True Balance is a digital wallet owned and operated by Balancehero India Private Limited (BHI), that enables users to access utility bill payment, loan recharge, insurance, and other financial products. With 70 million users, True Balance aims to serve India with utility payments financial platform for the unbanked users to serve their money forliving requirements. Affinit is a non-banking financial company (NBFC) licensed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), provides digital financial services through TrueBalance.It was launched in 2014 by Mr. Charlie Lee as CEO, an alumnus of the University of Chicago. | $21.9M | Series E | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Deep Insight | Deep In Sight is a technology company that develops AI-powered camera solutions for various industries. It focuses on areas like mobility, 3D imaging, and digital twin technology, using AI cameras that can analyze and make decisions in real time without relying on external systems. | $7.6M | Series B | Dec 18, 2024 |  |
| CJES Studios | CJES Studios is an entertainment company that offers film, drama, record, and musical production services. | $6.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 03, 2024 |  |
| Deep Insight | Deep In Sight is a technology company that develops AI-powered camera solutions for various industries. It focuses on areas like mobility, 3D imaging, and digital twin technology, using AI cameras that can analyze and make decisions in real time without relying on external systems. | $2.7M | Series A | Jul 07, 2022 |  |
| IGAWorks | IGAWorks is an full stack ad-tech company founded on 2006, and we are a group of industry-leading global services for the smart success of digital marketing and mobile businesses.We provide full-stack of ad-tech services which follows: ‘Tradingworks’, agency trade desk offering media, audience, performance as total advertisement service;‘adbrix’, an all-in-one data platform which leads the growth of mobile businesses with data based on the ad performance and user data; ‘adPOPcorn’, the biggest ad network in Korea; ‘Mobile Index‘, mobile app market analytics platform; ‘Campaign Intelligence’, reporting tool which dramatically lessens marketer’s reporting workload. Today, more than 30,000 mobile apps are utilizing the solutions of IGAWorks for their growth of businesses. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 31, 2022 |  |
| PR&D Company | PR&D Company is a company dedicated to innovating the used car market by addressing common concerns such as the difficulty in obtaining accident history and the insecurity of transactions. PR&D Company is creating a world where everyone can trade used cars with a pleasant experience. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 30, 2022 |  |
| EVR STUDIO | EVR STUDIO is a technology based, digital content development company based in Seoul, Korea. Past and current projects include digial humans, media art, XR media content, metaverse platform and game development. | $17.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 28, 2022 |  |
| Label AI | LABEL AI is an innovative Web 3 music platform enabling the creation and management of sounds like music and voice through AI and blockchain. Users can generate music for streaming, video backgrounds, games, metaverse, and AI videos, and create and edit voice content. These creations can be onboarded onto the TRACKS platform, where revenue isdistributed via the LABEL AI Sound Protocol. Through blockchain governance, users can own and operate a decentralized AI sound ecosystem.LABEL team builds up an ecosystem that establishes an incubating system, that will purport to provide an easier access to investment / promotion / distribution and improve an unfair profit structure that exists in the current sphere, striving to prevent copyright infringement cases across the industry. The pillars that will be developed inside of the LABEL Value Chain ecosystem are as following:Incubating SystemThe core idea behind the “Incubating System” is that anyone can register their digital course related to the career or job training and education inside of the LABEL. For the course to be eligible for the listing on the platform, it has to go through the voting system, where the votes are governed by the users and the selection process is carried out according to their votes. Once the selection process is over, the selected course will be provided with the investments in LBL tokens, that are contributed by either partner sales platforms, consumers or individual investors. Settlement System through the usage of NFT and Smart Contracts The courses, that have successfully received investments, will be registered as an NFT standard, which will clearly illustrate the share ratio of the ownership according to the contributions of instructors, voters and investors. The information on sales revenue from partner platforms will be released on the NFT Page, and the revenue generated by the course will be accurately distributed based on the NFT Equity Ratio that is registered in the Smart Contract.NFT MarketThe Course Creator, as well as the voters and inventors that have participated in the incubating process, including the selling platform itself and publicist can sell or trade their NFT share ratio in the NFT Market. The presence of the NFT Market enables the NFT owners to quickly liquidate their position and recover some of their expected future profit, whereas buyers can keep getting their stable profit slices continuously. | $2M | Seed | Feb 14, 2022 |  |
| Clesson | Clesson is a music edtech company. | $2M | Private Equity | Feb 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

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- [Double Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/double-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Hana Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hana-securities) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Groom Investment invest in?

Groom Investment invests primarily in Apps, Music and EdTech startups, most often at Venture - Series Unknown and Series E stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Korea. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Groom Investment's check size?

Groom Investment typically joins rounds of $6.1M–$17M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Groom Investment participates in.

### When did Groom Investment last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Groom Investment closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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